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Gene Millsaps Gene Millsaps

A native North Carolinian, I grew up in the Mooresville, NC area, north of Charlotte. After gaining a degree in civil engineering at NC State U, I worked in structural engineering in Charlotte and Tallahassee, Florida.

In 1986 I returned to the Mooresville area to help in the family ice cream business (manufacturing and wholesale distribution).

My computer introduction was in Fortran and PL/1 in college, then in BASIC in industry. In the early 1980's I got a Commodore 64 and floppy drive, and in about 1984 my employer, an Architect/Engineering firm bought its first PC, an IBM 8088 (86?) with a 5 MB Hard drive! So I learned Lotus 1-2-3 and introduced it to a few young other engineers and architects.

In our Mooresville business I found that spreadsheets could not match the capabilities of a Commodore database manager that I had found, so I tried a couple of PC-compatible low-power databases until I found Paradox for DOS. I hung on to Pdox/DOS until we bought Pdox 5 for Windows in a WordPerfect package, I think. The learning curve was initially quite steep, but I have automated many tasks for our business, and maybe I'll get the hang of it in another 5-10 years! And I have derived great benefit from the Paradox newsgroups.

My wife and I have two sons, one challenging college and one in middle school. We keep busy with civic actvities, church, youth sports, and boating.


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